it is always nice to have alternatives, especially open source O/S and applications, proprietary made software for masses has big problems (for example: race to the buttom of UIs and features, control over user etc)

The need for FOSS: -good software needs full time developers, and full time developers need to be paid. Not everything worthy of getting money for can have a service for it (eg: singleplayer games like Skyrim), and users don't tend to donate much

"freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things."

"Convey the object code by offering access from a designated place (gratis or for a charge), and offer equivalent access to the Corresponding Source in the same way through the same place at no further charge."

Linux is an example of an excellent FOSS project, companies pay employees to develop it together. The best projects are ones where companies work together. Free gaming doesn't benefit from this unfortunately

Hijiri: it will be capable of running programs in their own sandbox (e.g. nano based text editor), and information about what is running at the time and custom formspec data will be stored in respective meta keys.

here's an interesting side note to this night's FOSS flame war: back when i wanted to change the license to something else from GPL in 2011, i actually thought of a license that would be non-commercial until 6 months from release or so, after which it would be the same as LGPL or whatever, and before which only i would have had permission for selling it